CVE-2016-1285

critical-risk
Published 2016-03-09

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P4 and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4 does not properly handle DNAME records when parsing fetch reply messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet to the rndc (aka control channel) interface, related to alist.c and sexpr.c.

Do I need to act?

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69.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 31% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 6.8/10 Medium
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

Canonical Opensuse Debian Isc Juniper Suse Fedoraproject

References (58)

Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181036.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181037.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178831.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178880.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179904.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179911.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00046.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00053.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00070.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00072.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00075.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00079.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00084.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00013.html
Issue Tracking http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=146191105921542&w=2
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0562.html
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0601.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3511
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.h...
and 38 more references
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critical-risk
Severity 21/34 · High
Exploitability 19/34 · Moderate
Exposure 33/34 · Critical